Cake wrapping



Sept. 19, 1933. K. HoFFMANN CAKE WRAPPI NG Filed May 9, 1932 man gmc/Mm Konrad Hoffmann.

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copping, etc., the laments are often shipped in Patented Sept. 19, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE CAKE WRAPPING y Application May 9, 1932. Serial No. 610,28 and in Germany May 16, 1931 2 Claims. (Cl. 206-59) In the manufacture of artificial filaments by the direct process, filaments may be collected in a centrifugally spinning pot. The filaments, as they are thus collected, are in the form of a ring After washing, desulphurization, de-

the cake form.

My present invention concerns a method forpacking such cakes.

One object of the present invention is to provide a new and novel method for accomplishing this mapping.

A further object is to provide a simple wrapping which will adequately protect the cake.

Still another object is to. provide a mapping which may be easily and quickly removed by the` one to whom the cake is shipped.

Further'objects will become readily apparent from a study of the following specification and claims, and of the accompanying drawing, whichcircular strip OfPaper -2-. This circular stripl may be made up from a straight strip of paper by securing the ends together, preferably in overlapping condition, by the use of some adhesive, etc. In the drawing, an adhesive strip 3 is shown, used to secure the overlapping ends of the ring -2-, together. I also provide a means whereby this strip may be easily and quickly removed from the cake, by securing under the securing strip -3-, at the point 4 a looped thread or string -5-.

If it should be deemed advisable to protect the cake elsewhere than on the outer face, for example, to protect the top and bottom, and/or a portion of or the entire inner surfaces, additional wrappings may be employed, or the outer wrapping may be formed as a C, and thus cover both the outside face and the top and bottom at the same time. The drawing shows how a buffer or protector for the upper and lower faces of the cake may be fashioned, at -6-, where two threads or strings are used to encircle the rim of the cake. Paper strips -7- may be similarly employed. As shown in the drawing, one of the strips -7- may be arranged so that it can cover the adhesive strip -3-, and the tearing thread 5-, thus forming a protection which will preannular ring, means adapted to hold said flexible arranged perpendicularly to said first-named vent accidental tearing prior to the time of use. In order to keep the strip --'1- in place, a small seal -8- may be employed. On this seal some identifying indicia as to the titer of the thread, etc., may be printed.

Instead of the exact modification set forth in the drawing, I may also employ, for example, a wrapping -7- provided with an extending tab, which may be pulled to tear the protecting band. A line of guiding perforations, arranged diagonally, for example, may be used to guide the tearing.

The strips -7-, perform three functions when they are used. They protect the upper and lower surfaces of the cake, `they prevent premature pulling of the rip cord -5-, and they serve to keep the outer protecting strip -2- in position.

The strip -2- may be of a width greater than the depth of the cake, if desired, thus providing extra protection if the cakes are packed fiat-wise, one on top of the other.

In placing a cake on a reel for further working up, aftershipment, my new wrapper permits one to remove all the protecting strips except that indicated as 2, to thenplace the cake on a reel, for example, and to then remove this strip -2.

Having now set forth my invention as required by the patent statutes, what I desire to claim is:

1. In a wrapping of the class described, in combination, a strip encircling a cake of filaments and extending around its outer face, sealing means to secure the strip together around the cake, and a second protective strip running at right angles to the first strip, and encircling the same together with the filaments, said second named strip actingto assist in binding the laments together.

2. In combination, an annular ring of filaments of artificial origin, and a protective wrapping therefor, said wrapping comprising a flexible protective strip covering the outer periphery of said strip in closed position, a second protective strip strip and encircling the filaments, and acting to.

bind the said iilamentstogether in a compact mass, and a combination seal and identification disc acting to secure the two strips in fixed relationship with respect to each other.

KONRAD HOFFMANN. 

